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elledark:

Banksy on Advertizing

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers” and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

~ Banksy

cartoonpolitics:

never wise to under-estimate ..

joost5:

“Cain’s Thoughts on Libya”

elledark:

A Deadlier Threat Than Terrorism

Be very scared. A killer stalks the U.S. public claiming, by recent estimates, 45,000 lives annually or one dead American about every 10 minutes. That’s 3,750 people, more than the 9/11 attacks, dying needlessly every single month.

This shadowy killer is the lack of adequate health care in the U.S. Researchers from Harvard Medical School found in late 2009 that 45,000 people die unnecessarily every year due to lack of health insurance. Heres another stunning fact: In 2008, four times as many U.S. Army veterans died because they lacked health insurance than the total number of U.S. soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. That’s right: 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died because they were uninsured.

These are the facts. This is the reality. Osama Bin Laden and his rag-tag band of ‘terrorists’ have been responsible for the deaths of *far* fewer Americans than the present ‘health-care’ industry and the politicians who support it. The harm they have done to America far outstrips any external threat yet politicians continue to wrangle and score political points rather than agreeing there’s a serious problem in America that needs to be tackled while all the time ordinary people are dying .

The very modest and limited health-care reforms that Obama proposed, which required a single-payer option and universal coverage to retain any credibility, were crippled beyond recognition by cynical republicans desperate to damage him for political gain and by the greed of big business protecting obscene levels of profit. Their personal interests were more important to them than people dying. By any reasonable standards, these are bad people. That was a bad thing to do. How can they possibly be allowed to get away with it ? Yet they will .

There has been absolute hypocrisy at the very heart of American public debate over health care. It is the bedrock, fundamental duty of any administration to protect the lives of the people who elect it. If every minor ‘terrorist’ scare can dominate the news while a far more deadly danger is ignored what kind of mad Alice in Wonderland world are we living in ? Why do people put up with this ?

Since theres a war on ‘terrorism’ and another on ‘drugs’ surely its not asking too much for a ‘war on inadequate health-care’ ? I guess that isn’t quite such a catchy sound-byte though. And maybe theres less profit to be made.

early-onset-of-night:

Mr. Goldwater foreshadows the early 21st century and the coup that destroyed the American Right.

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